On Sun, 3 Jul 2022, David Chmelik wrote:
On 5/26/22 12:16 PM, Carl Edquist wrote:
In the states i am used to Sunday being the first "day of the week",
but "weekdays" refer specifically to Monday-Friday, thus even in the
states, Monday is the first "weekday" :)
'Weekday' abbreviates 'day of wee
On 2022-07-03 04:09, David Chmelik wrote:
>> (And, no, 1900 was not the zeroth year of the 20th century. It was the
>> 100th year of the 19th century!)
> Most people say first of 20th century; I don't think anyone says 'one to 10
> are ones; 11 is first of the tens,' rather than zero or one to n
Year, season, month, fortnight, week (in the year) & their day numbers
should all be possible to get/print starting from '1' (regardless of
calendar/country) in date command format itself (so usable in X Window
System clocks, etc.) I'll reply to a couple replies.
On 5/24/22 1:30 PM, Bob Proul
Hi David!
Looks like Bob gave an excellent, thorough reply. (Thanks Bob!)
For fun, a couple details about "counting" caught my eye from your email:
On Fri, 20 May 2022, David Chmelik wrote:
I'm European-American, programming since 1993, and may recall Monday was
first weekday growing up in
David Chmelik wrote:
> I noticed two types for weeks in year: 1 to 53, 0 to 53, numbering
> 54 weeks, but there can't be 54, right?
> Only two options exist to number weekdays, when should be
> more/user-configurable.
The %Y and %U or %W options work in combination. Use %U for wee
